Sources have confirmed to the Saudi outlet al-Arabiya that Salim Ayyash, a Hezbollah operative and one of the four people held responsible for the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005, has been eliminated by the IDF in an air strike in Syria.
Ayyash was tried in absentia by the UN, Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon and given a life sentence. He and three others arranged a truck bomb which killed Hariri, a former Prime Minister of Lebanon and businessman, and over 20 others in 2005.
Only two of the four men responsible for the assassination are reportedly alive today, now.
Hariri's assassination helped galvanize the March 14 mass protest movement which forced Syria to remove itself from partial control of the state of Lebanon.
The United States had announced an award of $10 million for information or the location of Ayyash following the assassination.